A small rural community on the Cork-Limerick border is taking unprecedented steps to combat rural crime.

The M20 motorway between Cork and Limerick will enhance the entire region economically and socially while bringing new life to towns like Charleville, Co Cork.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is committed to ensuring ‘that all roads no longer go to Dublin’, writes Political Correspondent Juno McEnroe.

A Cork-Limerick motorway is “an absolute imperative” if Government wants to balance out the thriving Dublin economy and ensure the financial recovery spreads to all parts of the country.

The budget will be a test of Finance Minister Pascal Donohoe, who now has complete control as a result of the two portfolios of finance and public expenditure being brought under his remit.

A man and woman who had gone missing on the Ballyhoura Mountains have been found safe and well.

Improving our infrastructure remains a huge challenge. Failing to re-evaluate the now discredited idea of decentralisation and jobs dispersion is adding to it, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

The proposed M20 motorway between Cork and Limerick could trigger up to 5,400 jobs for the region and prevent almost 120 crashes every year.

The lack of a motorway between Cork and Limerick is the “single biggest gap in Irish infrastructure” and planning needs to be kick- started urgently, the boss of the Construction Industry Federation (CIF) has said.

Executive staff of Cork County Council, backed by elected members, have warned the Government any attempt to re-route a proposed motorway link between Cork and Limerick through Tipperary would be a disaster for the economies of North Cork, Kerry, and West Limerick.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has suggested the Cork-Limerick motorway could be built as long as tolls are included.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan said the building of a N20 motorway connecting Cork and Limerick was a priority, but he ruled out any early move due to lack of money.

Set aside a bit of time for viewing this Kilglass home on Saturday next at day long open viewings: it’s big, with 3,2000 sq ft and six bedrooms, over three floors, but it also comes with up to seven acres and a big detached garage.

Six years ago, estate agent Stephen Clarke put the restored lodge of the 17th century Monkstown Castle above Cork harbour, up for sale.

OF THE companies that marched to Mount Leader outside Millstreet, Rathduane was the largest; all its 29 members at Easter 1916 turned out.

Government research shows the benefits of the proposed Cork to Limerick motorway would outweigh the costs by two to one, despite Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe’s claims that the project is “too expensive”.

TRANSPORT Minister Paschal Donohoe has scrapped plans to build a motorway between Cork and Limerick.

New roads, schools, public transport, housing, and Garda resources have all been promised as part of the Coalition’s €27bn capital spending programme.

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A Cork woman had a dramatic encounter with a swan on the Cork-Limerick road yesterday, in what has quickly been dubbed ’Swan Brake’.

Cork County Council and businesses in Mallow are to fund a consultants’ report aimed at showing the Government the economic necessity of creating a northern bypass of the town.

Councillors will get a chance midweek to press Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe about the importance of building a bypass to relieve congestion in a grid-locked Cork town.

A beautiful, old-world white-washed courtyard complex of outbuildings and up to 15 stables comes with Spitalfields House — a real, genuine Georgian home near North Cork’s Buttevant, about 15 minutes from Mallow off the Cork-Limerick road. 

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The body of the Co Limerick man killed in a skiing accident in the Alps over Christmas is expected to be flown to Cork today.

More than six weeks since he decided to step down as Cork senior football manager, Conor Counihan is enjoying life away from the intense pressures of the inter-county stage — but he’s still being kept busy

Following four months of competition, heartwarming and spirit-lifting singer Keith Hanley has scored himself a recording contract after being voted the Voice of Ireland.

A 77-year-old retired farmer has died in a fire on the Cork - Limerick border.

Transport Minister Leo Varadkar has said he cannot see the proposed €800m Cork-Limerick (M20) motorway opening before 2023.

Torrential rain may have been a factor in the death of a 23-year-old woman, from a well-known north Cork business family, whose car was in collision with a truck on a main road on the outskirts of Cork City.

Gardaí are investigating claims that a 16-year-old girl was raped by a number of men on either side of the Cork-Limerick border.

IT’S not so long since Irish people thought trees were for the birds — a century ago, a miserly 1% of our land had trees on it, the nadir of 1,000 years of plundering and chopping for which we can blame the Vikings, the Normans, the English and ourselves.

Dormer in scenic tourism area is priced at €325,000 says Tommy Barker.

BUILT six years ago by a builder for his own private use, the large 2,800 sq ft family home at Ard Na Greine, near Croom is a good family home buy, with a guarantee of good construction standards.

GARDAÍ in Charleville believe a missing octogenarian probably died of hypothermia in his car after becoming disorientated and getting lost in a remote area on the Cork-Limerick border.

THE National Roads Authority hopes to build the 80km motorway linking Limerick with Cork over two phases at an estimated cost of €800 million.

A LIVERPOOL fan, little Evan Murphy had grown accustomed to going to sleep while looking at the curtains emblazoned with his favourite club’s crest and colours.

FIGURES released by gardaí yesterday show that the highest number of motorists’ deaths occurring in Cork, Kerry and Limerick are on main roads, reinforcing the view that public criticism of excessive speed traps on these arteries is unwarranted.

This three-bedroomed house at Dromsligo has a guide price of €245,000-plus.